While there are 17 male candidates in Constituency No. 1, one transgender woman from the gender minority community, Binod Lama, has registered her candidacy. Lama is the candidate of the Inclusive Socialist Party.
Forty-two candidates have registered their candidacies in two constituencies of Kavre for the upcoming House of Representatives elections to be held on Falgun 21. According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, 18 candidates have registered their candidacies in Kavre 1 and 24 in Kavre 2.
While 3 people have registered independent candidacies in Kavre 1, 8 people have registered independent candidacies in Constituency No. 2. While there are 17 male candidates in Constituency No. 1, 1 transgender woman Binod Lama has registered her candidacy from the gender minority community. Lama is a candidate of the Inclusive Socialist Party.
There are 5 candidates under the age of 40 in Constituency No. 1. In Constituency No. 1, Ami Tamang from CPN-UML, Gunaraj Muktan from Nepali Congress, Dinnath Gautam from Nepali Communist Party (NCP), Madhu Kumar Chaulagain from Rastriya Swatantra Party, Kamal Bahadur Lama from Mongol National Organization, Kanchha Tamang from CPN-Maoist, Dhiraj Lama from Shram Sanskriti Party, and Nawaraj Satyal from Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) have registered their candidacies.
Similarly, Bharat Tamang from National Republic Nepal, Man Bahadur Tamang from Janata Samajwadi Party, Yogendra Lama from Ujjwal Nepal Party, Ratna Lama from Samyukta Nagarik Party, Raju Tamang from Nepal Mazdoor Kisan Party and Gyanendra Kumar Shrestha from Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party have registered their candidacies. In Constituency No. 1, Jeevan Lama, Yubaraj Chaulagain and Rajesh Kumar Shrestha have registered their candidacies as independent candidates.
In Constituency No. 2, 3 women have registered their candidacies and 10 candidates are below the age of 40. In Constituency No. 2, Ashok Kumar Byanju Shrestha from CPN-UML, Mudha Prasad Acharya from Nepali Congress, Basundhara Humagain from Nepali Communist Party, Badan Kumar Bhandari from National Independent Party, Umesh Tamang from Mongol National Organization, Kanchharam Ghising from CPN-Maoist, Jyotsana Sainju from Ujjaya Nepal Party, Tanka Bahadur Lama from Shram Sanskriti Party, Muna Tamang from Nepal Mazdoor Kisan Party, Rakam Lama Tamang from Janata Samajwadi Party, and Ranjiv Shrestha from Rastriya Prajatantra Party have registered their candidacies.
Similarly, Ramesh Bahadur Gharti Chhetri from Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party, Rajan Thapa from CPN-United, Sukman Tamang from National Republic Nepal, Subarna Bikram Thapa from Rastriya Janamorcha, and Hari Bahadur Thapa from Miteri Party Nepal have registered their candidacies. In Constituency No. 2, eight people including Asha Tamang, Umesh Thapa, Keshav Raj Timalsina, Ganesh Prasad Adhikari, Dilli Prasad Neupane, Lenin Bista, Bishnukumar Shrestha, Sitaram Mainali have registered their independent candidacies.
Bista is a candidate from the Genji campaign
Lenin Bista has registered his candidacy in Kavre 2 from the Genji group led by Miraj Dhungana. Bista, who came to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer to register his candidacy along with Dhungana, said that he had filed his candidacy to explain his agenda to the people even though he was in favor of holding elections under the status quo.
Bista from Banepa-12 in Kavre is a former Maoist fighter. Bista, who has been active in the Genji campaign recently, said that his group has filed independent candidacies in all 165 constituencies of the country.
